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NASABuzz Aldrin and the U.S. flag on the Moon (7/20/1969)

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the Moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM, the "Eagle", to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar-orbit.


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Mediatype: image
Creator: NASA
Date: 7/20/1969
Year: 1969
Insightuid: nasaNAS~5~5~21649~126419
Center: Headquarters
Source: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2001-000012.html
Who: Buzz Aldrin
Who: Neil A. Armstrong
Who: Michael Collins
What: Apollo 11
What: Moon
Where: United States of America
Identifier: GPN-2001-000012
Addeddate: 2009-12-08 00:05:12
Publicdate: 2009-12-08 00:08:13
Keywords: Astronauts; Apollo 11; Who -- Buzz Aldrin; Who -- Neil A. Armstrong; Who -- Michael Collins; What -- Apollo 11; What -- Moon; Where -- United States of America

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Reviewer: GoneToPlaid - - April 1, 2011
Subject: Nice image, but incorrect image designation
This image actually is image AS11-40-5874 rather than 5875. Both images are very similar. Aldrin was saluting the flag (as shown) in image 5874. In image 5875 Aldrin had already lowered his right arm after saluting the flag. The image misidentifation error was propagated from the original NASA post not only to here on archive.org, but onto other similar NASA web pages which picked up and posted the same image and related article on their division web sites.